公开(公告)号：US20140365548A1

公开(公告)日：2014-12-11

申请号：US13914731

申请日：2013-06-11

Applicant: ANALOG DEVICES TECHNOLOGY

Inventor： Mikael Mortensen

IPC: G06F7/57

CPC classification number: G06F17/16 ,  G06F9/3001 ,  G06F9/30036 ,  G06F9/3824 ,  G06F9/3893

Abstract: In at least one example embodiment, a microprocessor circuit is provided that includes a microprocessor core coupled to a data memory via a data memory bus comprising a predetermined integer number of data wires (J); the single-ported data memory configured for storage of vector input elements of an N element vector in a predetermined vector element order and storage of matrix input elements of an M×N matrix comprising M columns of matrix input elements and N rows of matrix input elements; a vector matrix product accelerator comprising a datapath configured for multiplying the N element vector and the matrix to compute an M element result vector, the vector matrix product accelerator comprising: an input/output port interfacing the data memory bus to the vector matrix product accelerator; a plurality of vector input registers for storage respective input vector elements received through the input/output port.

Abstract translation: 在至少一个示例性实施例中，提供了微处理器电路，其包括经由包括预定整数数据线（J）的数据存储器总线耦合到数据存储器的微处理器核心; 单端口数据存储器，其被配置为以预定向量元素顺序存储N个元素向量的向量输入元素，并存储包括M列矩阵输入元素和N行矩阵输入元素的M×N矩阵的矩阵输入元素 ; 矢量矩阵乘积加速器，其包括被配置为将所述N个元素向量和所述矩阵相乘以计算M元素结果向量的数据路径，所述向量矩阵乘积加速器包括：将所述数据存储器总线连接到所述向量矩阵乘积加速器的输入/输出端口; 多个向量输入寄存器，用于存储通过输入/输出端口接收的各个输入向量元素。